F1 Madness

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and Sauber’s Esteban Gutierrez have both been handed three place grid penalties for tomorrows Spanish grand Prix. Massa was penalised for impeding Mark Webber during Q2 and Gutierrez for impeding Lotus’ Kimi Raikkonen during Q1. Massa who qualified in 6th will now start 9th on the grid and Gutierrez will will drop down […]

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Ted Kravitz of Sky Sports F1 gives us a brief overview of all the updates that were brought to Barcelona by the teams and focuses on the rather interesting one’s.

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In the world of motorsport there is no shortage of Spanish sporting heroes. The current crop of Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marques and their domination of MotoGP is testament to the fact. Spain may be smitten with MotoGP but it was Fernando Alonso who transformed this country’s interest in Formula 1 from mild […]

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Despite an operational failure on Fernando Alonso’s car Ferrari are keeping things in perspective. Although the Spaniard is thirty points adrift of championship leader Sebastian Vettel after only four races of the 2013 season Ferrari see no reason to drop their chins. “The gap is 30 points now, but if he has zero points next […]

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Fernando Alonso suffered a very unusual DRS failure in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The DRS flap got stuck in the open position and way above the 50mm limit. The cause seemed to have been the stopper that sits in the middle part of the rear wing. This little device stops the wing from opening above […]

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Red Bull-Renault Sebastian Vettel (1st): “It was good fun at the beginning with some very tight wheel to wheel racing. At the start you don’t know if you will be quick or not, as everyone is a bit all over the place, including yourself! It’s important to get to the front; we saw at the last […]

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Fernando Alonso put the Ferrari on top of the timesheets ahead of Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull. Alonso set a time of 1.33.247 on the softer medium tyres 7 mins before the end of the session, and it proved to be an unbeatable time. Here are the timesheets for the final practice session in Bahrain. Alonso […]

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Since the start of the Formula One season several teams have been particularly vocal in condemning the 2013 Pirelli tyres. As far as this upset lot were concerned tyres would dominate the Chinese grand prix headlines. Instead it was Fernando Alonso that wrote his name into the headlines. A third place in Saturday’s qualifying session […]

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Most formula one fans have heard these two terms thrown about but are not really clear on what the difference is between pull rod suspension and push rod suspension on a Formula One car. F1 Madness technical writer, Ritesh K Bhana takes a closer look. At the beginning of the 2012 season we saw Ferrari […]

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